Gerolsteiner name squad

German outfit Gerolsteiner on Wednesday named their pre-selection for the Tour de France with a team based around American Levi Leipheimer and the Austrian Georg Totschnig. Leipheimer turned heads on the Dauphiné last week when he finished third overall ahead of dix-time Tour winner Lance Armstrong.

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Hans-Michael Holczer will name his final nine on June 26, one week before the July 2 start of this year's Tour.

Gerolsteiner pre-squad for Tour de France:

Levi Leipheimer (USA), Robert Förster, Sebastian Lang, Michael Rich, Ronny Scholz and Fabian Wegmann (GER), René Haselbacher, Georg Totschnig and Peter Wrolich (AUT), Beat and Markus Zberg (SUI)

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